Button-fastener



(No Model.)

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BUTTON PASTENER. .No. 323,923. Patented Aug. 11, 1885..

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD O. ELY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,923, dated August 11, 1885.

l Application filed May 4. 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD O. ELY. of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Button-Fasteners, of which thefollowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specificaton, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention has for its object to obviate the tearing of a staple like fastening out of the leather or other material into which it is driven.

In accordance with my invention a small washer, preferably notched at its edges and having a central recess or depression, is placed at the rear side of the material, so that the legs of the staple-like fastener, after passing through the material of the boot, shoe, or other article, enter the notches of the washer and, striking against a suitable anvil, are clinched or curled back with their points at the center of the said washer.

Figure 1 in elevation shows one of my improved fasteners as holding a button, the material being in section. Fig. 2 is an under side view of the washer enlarged Fig. 3, a section of Fig. 2 in the dotted lines as a", and Fig. 4 an elevation of the staple or fastener enlarged.

In the drawings, a represents the washer, notched at a a and perforated or indented at a". The washer is placed at the under or wrong side ofthe material, m, and the staple- 8, passed through the eye of the button b, has its legs driven through the material, the legs of the staple entering the notches a a, and t-here,n1eeting an anvil, having their points directed toward each other and. curled upward into the central opening or depression of the washer, asin Fig. 1.

To insure the inward clinching of the legs of the staple its points are beveled from the outside of the staple toward its center, and to enable the head or crown of the staple to eX- tend as a loop above the material the head or crown is made A-shaped, and the legs have a preliminary bend, as in my Patent No. 312,986, dated February 24, 1885.

My application N 0. 159,273, filed March 18, 1885, shows a machine capable of automatically driving the staples, the anvil having at its top a recessto receive the washer and hold it in place while the staple is being driven.

If the staple had a circular crown, or ifthe crown were at right angles to the legs, thus making a staple like the three sides of a quadrangular figure, the eye or shank piece of a button such as shown could not be held loosely, as herein shown,and be free to move as though it were held by thread.

I claim The staple having its points beveled in wardly, combined with a metallic washer notched at its edges and provided at its center with a perforation or recess for the reception of the points of the staple-legs, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDl/VARD O. ELY.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, W. H. SIosToN. 

